Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (29 January 1954-), born Orpah Gail Winfrey, was an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She was also a prominent Democratic Party supporter and donor, and her large fanbase even suggested that she run for President of the United States in 2020.

Biography
Orpah Gail Winfrey was born in rural Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954 to a teenage single mother, and she grew up in poverty in Kosciusko and in an inner-city Milwaukee, Wisconsin neighborhood. She was molested during her childhood and early teens and was impregnated at fourteen, with her son dying in infancy. She was then sent to live with the man she called her father, Tennessee barber Vernon Winfrey, and she landed a radio job while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated. She created a more intimate confessional form of media communication, popularizing and revolutionizing the tabloid talk show genre, breaking 20th-century taboos, and allowing LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid-1990s, her show was focused on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality, and she became a benefactor to others.

Winfrey was also involved in politics due to her large platform. In 2008, she endorsed Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama for President of the United States, winning him between 420,000 and 1,600,000 votes in the Democratic primary alone. On 7 January 2018, she gave a stirring speech at the 75th Golden Globes, addressing racial injustice and sexual abuse, concluding her speech with, "A new day is on the horizon!" This speech led to celebrities and her fans calling for her to run for President against Republican Party incumbent Donald Trump in 2020 (with some suggesting that she run with Michelle Obama as her running mate), but, on 23 February 2018, Winfrey said that she was definitely not interested in running. Later that same year, she went on to donate $500,000 to the March for Our Lives student demonstration for gun control.